TheDiogenist

The 'Skins oughtn't be forced to change their name, though. At some point, the owners will join the rest of us in the 20th century (a century late, at that) and of their own volition, find something more suitable.

(By the way, I'm not sure an actual atheist would feel the need to capitalise the 'a'...)

jacksonville021

animal

It's a football team name!! Not a physical attack on anyone, it is basically of no importance. Tell all the leftwing libs. to get over it and concentrate on someyhing of value! These guys can make a fight out of any stupid thing!! Like namexxx, can't go a day without trying to start trouble,with every stupid word uttered, if I had to live like that I would find a tall tree and a short rope and do the world a favor!

TheDiogenist

"I've always wondered why the whiteys didn't just enslave the Natives instead of shipping Blacks in from Africa."

Offhanded flippancy aside, initially the Spanish and Portuguese did. However, the diseases they had brought with them and the overall squalid conditions were a lethal combination. It was a marketing move on the Portuguese' part to begin using people stolen from its other colonies just across the ocean for the work instead, kicking off a lucrative, soul-crushing transatlantic trade nicknamed the Iron Triangle. The cash cow of misery would last for about three centuries, with the American South again the last holdouts in Christendom to abolish the thing. A trend of moral tardiness that still continues, but they thump the Bible loudly down enough there so that maybe nobody notices.

EarlyBird

it's not a nickname it's the name of their team... not being racist here but in the days gone past Indians or Natives were known to steal horses, well isn't it fitting our politicians would have that team name in their district.

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realwildchyld

Leave the name alone people! If you don't like the "Redskins" cheer for somebody else. The owner of the team has the right to choose the name and if he is happy and the majority of the fans are happy leave it be......I hope this team fights for their rights and doesn't cave like the Sioux did.

TheDiogenist

Yeah, there's no decent reason not to. Even by the standards of the day, George Preston Marshall was an outlandish racist, whose team was begrudgingly the last in professional football to admit any blacks to the roster. There's nothing historically significant or particularly honorific about the name, either; called 'the Braves' before, Marshall picked 'Redskins' to goose people's sensibilities and build a football franchise that southeastern states could embrace.